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This event has ended and I recommend you guys head over to the Folding Community Board for any general folding conversation. 

 

 

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Seemed simple enough! 1 server ready and waiting!

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7 minutes ago, Red :) said:

Hey, I'm new to folding, so I'd like to ask: Is it possible to keep the WU progress anywhere outside the system's RAM?

I'm asking, because the estimated WU completion date sadly coincides with the planned power outage date.

By default F@H has checkpoints, in the event your PC shuts off, you can still keep going.

The default value is making a checkpoint every 5 minutes, which can be changed in Configure > Advanced > Checkpointing Frequency.

You don't want to keep a WU waiting too long though, because:

1. that means your amount of points reward will decrease

2. it could mean a dropped WU at some point, or at least work F@H has to reshuffle to other users (maybe I'll get some WU's at that point :^) )

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Hey guys,

 

I have a small question: is it normal to only get a small part of the promised points?
As an example: I just finished a GPU workload with 66000 estimated points and a base credit of 7600. After uploading I just got credited 10000 points, though. All my workloads are handled similarly to this. In the 2 days of folding, I only got about 35000 points total, but I finished and uploaded about 5 CPU and 4 GPU workloads. All CPU workloads had an estimated credit of at least 2500 and all GPU workloads had estimated credits of at least 50000.
Is it normal to only get such a small amount of points and the estimated credit is there for no reason or what is the problem?

 

Thanks in advance.

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2 minutes ago, minibois said:

By default F@H has checkpoints, in the event your PC shuts off, you can still keep going.

The default value is making a checkpoint every 5 minutes, which can be changed in Configure > Advanced > Checkpointing Frequency.

You don't want to keep a WU waiting too long though, because:

1. that means your amount of points reward will decrease

2. it could mean a dropped WU at some point, or at least work F@H has to reshuffle to other users (maybe I'll get some WU's at that point :^) )

Well, the power is supposed to be out for 5,5 hours, so... :/

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15 minutes ago, garydeppenbaugh said:

An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

Sounds like it could be a firewall or antivirus software issue

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12 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

ok so now i get WUs more rarely and if i do it seems to only gives me CPU WUs 

Its all over the place, don't worry it will catch up eventually.  I did about three GPU WUs earlier and now nothing for hours.
Had no CPU WUs for several hours either but a couple just showed up.

Also one of my GPUs jobs from yesterday still hasn't submitted and so has past the timeout. :(

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NZXT users, keep an eye out on the cooling, failure can happen with the latest patch. I had to restart CAM several times until it recognized itself and allowed me to tweak the cooling curve.

 

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3 minutes ago, Maroza said:

NZXT users, keep an eye out on the cooling, failure can happen with the latest patch. I had to restart CAM several times until it recognized itself and allowed me to tweak the cooling curve.

 

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Just now, LordKitsune said:

That's a spicy little bug... ooof

heh

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6 minutes ago, ChuckNorris said:

Hey guys,

 

I have a small question: is it normal to only get a small part of the promised points?
As an example: I just finished a GPU workload with 66000 estimated points and a base credit of 7600. After uploading I just got credited 10000 points, though. All my workloads are handled similarly to this. In the 2 days of folding, I only got about 35000 points total, but I finished and uploaded about 5 CPU and 4 GPU workloads. All CPU workloads had an estimated credit of at least 2500 and all GPU workloads had estimated credits of at least 50000.
Is it normal to only get such a small amount of points and the estimated credit is there for no reason or what is the problem?

 

Thanks in advance.

Just read through the F@H FAQ https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/points/
Could it be that I am simply not entitled for bonus points yet?

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1 minute ago, ChuckNorris said:

Just read through the F@H FAQ https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/points/
Could it be that I am simply not entitled for bonus points yet?

We’re you maybe reading “estimated points per day”?  That I assume involves what would be happening if there was always a WU ready for you and you ran it for 24hrs.

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1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

We’re you maybe reading “estimated points per day”?  That I assume involves what would be happening if there was always a WU ready for you and you ran it for 24hrs.

No, in the web viewer I can read for my GPU:
"estimated points per day: 1,254,975" and "estimated points: 71,678"
In the end I only got credited about 10,000 points or so, like I said...

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3 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

You clearly never ran amd if you think your CPU got too warm.

Ha, well when I started being able to smell the CPU I thought it was best to not fold with it 😂

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I was thinking about helping fight against COVID-19 and started folding. Then saw this from google search. Well, it won't hurt joining a team while I'm at it, I guess.

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Hi everyone, I'm new at using Folding@Home.

 

My CPU and GPU are running at the same time, both are nice and warm and being utilized nicely, but contrary to the CPU, my GPU appears to make no progress, it's stuck at 0%.

Does the progress refresh at a lower frequency for the GPU than the CPU?

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3 minutes ago, oscar7601 said:

Hi everyone, I'm new at using Folding@Home.

 

My CPU and GPU are running at the same time, both are nice and warm and being utilized nicely, but contrary to the CPU, my GPU appears to make no progress, it's stuck at 0%.

Does the progress refresh at a lower frequency for the GPU than the CPU?

It takes time to fetch and download a work unit(WU) I think. My second WU started after 20mins and 9 search attempts in client.

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Just now, oscar7601 said:

Hi everyone, I'm new at using Folding@Home.

 

My CPU and GPU are running at the same time, both are nice and warm and being utilized nicely, but contrary to the CPU, my GPU appears to make no progress, it's stuck at 0%.

Does the progress refresh at a lower frequency for the GPU than the CPU?

No, they should refresh at the same speed. Are you sure your GPU has a WU? It will stay at 0% while it is requesting a WU download from the servers. In you advanced control, does the GPU slot say "Ready" beside it? If so, it's likely just waiting for delivery.

 

Also, GPU WUs tend to be more complex than CPU ones, and if your GPU is an older model you could just be progressing slower on it than expected.

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Just now, Ghost.Hunterzz said:

It takes time to fetch and download a work unit(WU) I think. My second WU started after 20mins and 9 search attempts in client.

Yes I understand this but my GPU is already at work (pinned at 100% utilization) and its status in Folding is "Running".

I am simply curious of knowing if it's normal that it's stuck at 0% for a long period of time (over 1h30).

It's a GTX 1080.

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1 minute ago, oscar7601 said:

Yes I understand this but my GPU is already at work (pinned at 100% utilization) and its status in Folding is "Running".

I am simply curious of knowing if it's normal that it's stuck at 0% for a long period of time (over 1h30).

It's a GTX 1080.

Try pausing it and restarting. If that doesn't do it, maybe @Metallus97 or one of the other vets would know something more. This is only my 3rd day in the fold :D

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Just now, LordKitsune said:

Try pausing it and restarting. If that doesn't do it, maybe @Metallus97 or one of the other vets would know something more. This is only my 3rd day in the fold :D

Alright I am going to try this. :)

 

Here is a screenshot of the advanced view :

 

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2 minutes ago, oscar7601 said:

Alright I am going to try this. :)

 

Here is a screenshot of the advanced view :

 

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Good luck! I'm gonna head back out into the world. Work cut my shifts so I've been stuck at home for the last couple of days watching fold bars progress! 

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3 minutes ago, oscar7601 said:

Alright I am going to try this. :)

 

Here is a screenshot of the advanced view :

 

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Maybe try restarting the client?

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Restarting the client didn't change a thing either unfortunately.

 

I'm pretty sure my GPU is doing something given its temperature and the fact its utilization is pinned at 100% but the outcome is not displayed...

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Alright so the GPU is actually working just fine but the progress percentage is only displayed in the "log" tab in advanced view.

 

Actually not, it was the CPU progress being displayed...

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